lyza (bookish version)

“It’s the power of photography. To capture it and let it live past the subject’s lifetime. To allow someone to look at it years later and smile along with them.”
― Jessica Joyce, You, with a View

“All I know is that I want to spend my life with someone, and I hope that one day every love song on the radio makes sense and every romantic comedy confirms that my heart is right.”
― Piper Rayne, Claus and Effect

“What’s that game called?’ he murmurs. ‘From last night?’
‘Tell Me a Secret,’ I manage, my heart in my throat.
His jaw ticks. ‘So, tell me one.’
I don’t want to admit it, but it’s the elephant in the room. His thumbs are inches from the spot throbbing worse than my knee.
‘I wouldn’t stop you if you kissed me right now.’ I say it quietly in case he changes his mind, but his eyes darken, pupils dilating. He doesn’t move, though his mouth parts like he can already taste it. ‘Now you.’
His breath dances over my lips. ‘If I kissed you right now, I wouldn’t stop.”
― Jessica Joyce, You, with a View

“I’d spent the past few years trying to be something, and there was something about Emmy that made me believe I could get there.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted